Culinary and Traveling

Archive for June, 2009

You’ve seen the pictures of the new abundance of luxury resorts, private islands in the shape of palm trees and continents in the world. They have been on for the indoor ski park and man heard from the beach to surf. You might think all that went to a party at all the skyscrapers gleaming. Am I right? Well, you’d better think again!

And Dubai has stunned the Western culture with imprisonment for visitors, a very small amount of prohibited substances, and no suspicion of people in four years (and even four-year curse!) In prison. More and more tourists from the West, a strict no tolerance policy in the United Arab Emirates recognized for having an illegal substance into prison as a highly sophisticated filtering equipment to traces of drugs in their clothing, bags or looking shoes.

A British man was sentenced last week to 4 years in prison after agents monitored a speck of cannabis was found on the soles of shoes (so small be almost invisible to the naked eye) is less than one grain of sugar. And do not bring the country to become a search target. Some unsuspecting passengers simply transiting through Dubai to change planes on their way to another destination.

As previously reported, which can not forget to Times Online: “One part of a drug into his pocket for up to four years in prison. Since January 2006, the property, even the remnants of drugs in prison four years of foreign nationals in transit through the presence of Dubai.The guided drug into the body count as possession, the State Department warned. In other words, tourists will be put in jail, even if no drugs on them: a trace of blood flow to the drug consumed in the United Arab Emirates is enough to secure a prison. painkiller prescription or doctor is also available on the table in Europe or the United States can be illegal in Dubai. “

Even more surprising is the classification of poppies for illegal drugs. A very happy man hurriedly eating a sandwich at Heathrow airport before his plane. You guessed it fell, three poppy seeds on his clothes, and that was enough for him arrested at the airport in Dubai. Ownership poppy can seem to jail 15 years. Are you crazy! The Daily Mail reported, “now has a Big Brother TV executive now added five days without charge after being arrested for having no health Melatonin.” Melatonin is an over-the-counter by the thousands in the West, which means to reduce the symptoms of jet lag. Travelers should also be aware that many common prescription drugs banned in the UAE or with a doctor’s prescription or not.

To be sure, see the Department of State U. S. travel advisory from the site for the United Arab Emirates. You do not know how limiting it is there! People must have a personal liquor license, enjoy in their own homes, enjoying a beer or a glass of wine. Tours must be alcohol in the hotel restaurant and bar, but the consumption of alcohol is strictly forbidden elsewhere.

And you’d rather not have mistakes in hotel or restaurant bill did not tab. You guessed it, a passport will be confiscated and you will be detained until this issue resolved to their satisfaction.